"great coders are today's rock stars. that's it."

"great coders are today's rock stars. that's it."

A short message from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, NBA all-star Chris Bosh, Gabe Newell of Valve, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Elena Silenok of Clothia, and other tech heroes, to inspire students to learn to code. This is a trailer, for a longer 5-min or 10-min short-film, available at http://code.org. Directed by Lesley Chilcott. Executive producers Hadi and Ali Partovi.

As part of VEVO's CERTIFIED series, will.i.am provides his thoughts about ongoing tech advances. He discusses doing his famous first hologram interviews with CNN, and explains his ideas about global connectivity.